Articles
Clear Filters
Loading...
100 results
- Music, Music Feature Feb 24, 2020
-
-
A Dusty Groove documentary premieres in Chicago
Danielle Beverly’s Dusty Groove: The Sound of Transition tells intimate stories about our deep connection to music.
- Film, Movie Feature Nov 5, 2019
-
-
The meaning of the movie palace
April Wright’s documentary Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace explores the history and future of the once-popular venues.
- Film, Movie Review Aug 29, 2019
-
-
Los Reyes and What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire take viewers deep into two communities
A Chilean skate park through the eyes of two dogs and a Black neighborhood in New Orleans
- Music, In Rotation Mar 11, 2019
-
-
DJ and producer Ariel Zetina on a beautifully transgressive Portuguese beat genius
Plus: photographer Julia Dratel on a sound artist with an ear for ecology, Reader associate editor Jamie Ludwig on a documentary that gives Sam Cooke’s death the close look it deserved, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2018
-
-
Craft beer, corporate beer, and Master Cicerones: drink it all in with Brewmaster
A new documentary explores the world of beer-lovers and it doesn't matter at all that it was funded by Pilsner-Urquell.
- Film, Movie Review Nov 1, 2018
-
-
In his latest documentary, Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman is curiously uninterested in the human inhabitants of a small town
The director has always been fascinated by processes, but this time the people behind them scarcely register.
- Film, Movie Review Sep 11, 2018
-
-
Sociologist and filmmaker David Schalliol explains how he came to make his first documentary, The Area
"I want to meet people, understand a place, make connections, and produce work that has meaning and effect."
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2018
-
-
New documentary Public Park illuminates Chicago's role in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria
The film by Fieldwork Collaborative Projects follows Puerto Rican evacuees in Humboldt Park.
- Film, Movie Review Jun 4, 2018
-
-
Chicago’s Wax Trax! Records portrayed as a romance etched in vinyl in new documentary
Industrial Accident chronicles the love relationship that sustained Chicago's legendary record store and label.
- Film, Movie Review May 2, 2018
-
-
The documentary Summer in the Forest is mediocre—and a must-see
Randall Wright's film provides a welcome introduction to author, philosopher, and social worker Jean Vanier.
- Film, Movie Feature Mar 22, 2018
-
-
An epic quest to skateboard from Chicago to New York hits the screen in Shred America
Arthur Swidzinski and Mike Kosciesza planned to document their adventure, but never thought it would take ten years.
- Film, Movie Feature Mar 12, 2018
-
-
State basketball powerhouse Orr Academy’s incredible rise to glory bared in gripping new film
Shot in the Dark, executive produced by Chance the Rapper, spends two and a half eventful years at the west-side high school.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 21, 2018
-
-
Busy drummer Ben Billington releases music from two of his bazillion bands
Plus: Black digital media platform the TRiiBE crowdfunds new projects, and Pivot Gang cofounder Frsh Waters headlines this month’s All Smiles.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 16, 2018
-
-
Pow Wow is a wry documentary about Americans' distance from their own history
The latest from Zoo director Robinson Devor screens all week at Facets.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2018
-
-
Five must-see lo-o-o-ong films
Five very long film masterpieces.
- Music, In Rotation Jun 26, 2017
-
-
Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak on a deranged 1978 synth-pop masterpiece
Plus: Meg MacDuff of Bleach Party on a record so danceable it has its own energy drink, the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti on a long, strange film about the Grateful Dead, and more
- Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 28, 2017
-
-
The Vic screens the Wax Trax! Records documentary before it’s even finished
Plus: Dream-pop project Fauvely celebrates its debut EP, and Chicago expat Alex Wiley returns to headline a hip-hop party at the Promontory.
- Music, In Rotation Sep 21, 2016
-
-
Trevor de Brauw of Pelican on Nick Cave’s journey through grief
Plus: Anatomy of Habit’s Kenny Rasmussen on the addictiveness of vintage rap music, the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti on touring like a grown-up, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 7, 2016
-
-
How the Numero Group tracked down obscure Chicago disco-funk outfit Universal Togetherness Band
Watch an "instruction manual for how to make a Numero Group release."
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Jan 27, 2016
-
-
Comics can also be documentary
In her latest book, U. of C. professor Hillary Chute establishes a new field of study: "drawn witnessing."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 18, 2015
-
-
Seminal Chicago video game studio Midway Games to get the documentary treatment
A film about the Chicago company that produced Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and other popular video games of the 1990s is in development.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 26, 2015
-
-
Former Chicagoan John Yingling completes the first episode of his World Underground webseries
He traveled to China for the first episode in his international underground music series.
- Film, Movie Review Sep 10, 2014
-
-
Homeless teens search for a way out in Kartemquin's The Homestretch
The new documentary looks at effective social programs strapped for cash.
- Film, Movie Review Aug 6, 2014
-
-
Chicago Filmmakers revives Chantal Akerman's One Day Pina Asked . . .
Choreographer Pina Bausch is profiled in the 1983 TV documentary.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2014
-
-
Coming soon: Amina Waheed's superb Chicago-shot documentary Corner Stores
Previewing Amina Waheed's short Chicago-shot documentary, screening twice next week at the Gene Siskel Film Center
